The Netherlands

Celebrating 50 Years of Volunteering! Group EVS 2016.

Celebrating 50 Years of Volunteering is a summer exchange of animators in the form of a Group EVS. The Group EVS Program 2016 is organised in Rijswijk, The Netherlands.This program aims to help young people to travel to a new culture, new people, speak a new language and cross own mind set up to help out other people namely children. This in turn help the volunteers to their personal growth and job opportunities. The program promotesintercultural learning experience, encouraging social integration and widening the perspective of the young people to employability.Through a creative program the young and older volunteers step into solidarity and stimulate their creative and innovative thinking through sports and recreative outdoor activities for children (4-16 years). Advanced Planning Visit: 24-27 May 2016. The leaders from the organisation and one of the volunteers from the summer exchange will come to the Netherlands for the preparation of the summer exchange. Dates: 21 July to 21 August 2016Number of international volunteers: 28 volunteers (22 forDon Bosco Rijswijk, 4 forDon Bosco Amsterdam and 2 forDeebeetje Kamps)The countries that are taking part:Austria, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.Costs: Travel, accommodation and pocket money will be provided by the Erasmus + Group EVS project.

Out of the 28 volunteers 12 volunteers will be young people with fewer opportunities. from 14 countries will take active part in the summer holiday activities.

The project is approved under the Erasmus+ programme: “2016-1-NL02-KA105-001261, Celebrating 50 Years of Volunteering”

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DBYn NL on the theme of Refugees21-28 Aug 2016

Don Bosco Youthnet Nederland​DIVERSITY leads to TOLERANCE?: Sharing and exchanging ideas and experiences on differences and similarities in the context of current issue of Refugees. It is Youth Exchange organised in the Netherlands together with young people from Armenia, Spain, Hungary and the Netherlands. ​There is uneasiness in our society because of the arrival of the thousands of refugees. With the negative media and the influence of extreme right politics it easily can turn into a tone of intolerance, fear and fuel for xenophobia against refugees and migrants. A group of young people in Rijswijk were concerned about these tendency creating fear and prejudice which in turn building another wall and the mind walls are growing higher day by day. This Youth Exchange focuses to develop the critical thinking and tolerance in the mind of the teenagers/youth during the exchange and there after.

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The international secretariat of Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw is financially supported by the European Union, through its ‘Erasmus+ Youth in Action’-programme, and by the Council of Europe, through its 'European Youth Foundation'. ﻿This publication reflects the views only of the author, and neither the Commission nor the Council of Europe can be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.